Limericks are fun. Science limericks more so.
A woman in liquor production
Owns a still of exquisite construction.
The alcohol boils
Through magnetic coils.
She says that it’s “proof by induction.”
(You’ll want to think about the pun there for a little while.)
– via limerickdb.com
Didn’t make this one up, but:
Johnny was the chemist’s son
But Johnny is no more.
What Johnny though was H20
Was H2SO4
There was a young man who said, “God
Must think it exceedingly odd
If he finds that this tree
Continues to be
When there’s no one about in the Quad.”
REPLY
Dear Sir:
Your astonishment’s odd:
I am always about in the Quad.
And that’s why the tree
Will continue to be,
Since observed by
Yours faithfully,
GOD.
Haha, nice Bombus.
This might fall under biology:
“I am the man from Nantucket”
http://home.netcom.com/~swansont/nantucket.jpg
OK, a real one (not original), from physics:
There once was a woman named Bright,
who could travel much faster than light.
She departed one day,
in a relative way,
and returned the previous night.
The best ones are Swansont’s and Ecoli’s